You, the messenger of blonde hair at dusk,
The sun rests on the top of the mountain and lights up yours.
Torch of love; Wear your bright crown.
Put it on and smile at our sofa!
Smile at love; When you stop the car.
Blue sky curtain, please put your silver dew
Sow for every sleeping flower.
Let your west wind rest on the lake,
Tell silence with your twinkling eyes,
Wash the darkness with mercury. Soon,
You went; So the wolf came out and ran wild,
Lions also look for it in the dark forest.
Please protect our sheep;
The wool is covered with your sacred dew.
(translated by Cha Liang Zheng)
Poetry without rhythm will lose its shallowness The charm of Blake's poetry lies not in its flowery rhetoric and novel ideas, but in its unique charm, obscurity and profundity. This poem is selected from his early lyric poetry collection "Sketch of Poetry", praising the stars and expressing the poet's beautiful wishes and ideals. The artistic conception of poetry is profound and infinite.
Stars, messengers of the night; Starlight, the torch of love. Empathy for things-the natural scenery is filtered by the poet's subjective image and has a sense of color, which immediately becomes vivid and full of emotions. The poet has good feelings and good wishes in his heart. He pinned his feelings on the dim star and entrusted his wishes to the star. In the silent night, people sleep peacefully and enjoy love. He hopes that the stars will give people peace and happiness with their bright brilliance. The word "smile" is full of charm, and the stars are written affectionately, creating an artistic conception of blending things with me and scenes. Then, the poet turned from blessing people to blessing natural creatures. Let the star sprinkle its silver light on the sleepy flowers, let the night wind stop on the lake, not disturb the tranquility of all things in nature, let the twinkling eyes of the star tell the silence, convey their feelings to the world, drive away the darkness with its bright silver light, and bring peace and tranquility to nature. The beauty of tranquility, harmony and artistic conception created in the poem is as meaningful as a violin serenade or a dream song. In this silence, the inner feelings of poetry are so deep and soothing. With the starlight pushing it further into the artistic conception, people are intoxicated with this silver, silent and harmonious cosmic atmosphere.
Writing here, the poet seems to have created an eternal peaceful world for us, a fantasy that transcends time and reality. But this transcendence is short-lived. With a change of pen, the poet used the phrase "Soon, you will leave" to make the illusion disappear. The poet knows that the starlight that brings peace and tranquility to natural creatures will not stay long. He knows that there are too many restless things lurking under all this peace and tranquility. After the starlight disappeared, the universe was shrouded in darkness again, and the world in the dark night was mysterious and gloomy, full of violence and sin. There is not only beauty in nature, but also terror. Under the protection of darkness, "wolves" can come out and run amuck, and "lions" will also peep in the dark forest. They are cruel and violent vandals of the law of the jungle and symbols of evil forces. Therefore, even if the poet yearns for a beautiful and peaceful world, he must return to reality. In the last two sentences, the poet once again expressed his good wishes to the starlight: to protect the "sheep"-to protect these peaceful creatures bathed in the sacred starlight and soaked with the nectar of love.
Blake is a master of using images and mastering symbolic techniques. The moral in his poems is always hidden and expressed through concrete images. On the surface, this poem is just a lyrical ditty praising the natural scenery, but if we carefully taste it, we can understand its profound connotation: it not only shows the poet's longing for a better world, but also points out the dark power hidden under beauty and peace. The images in the poem are vivid and rich in connotation, which fully embodies the poet's creative characteristics of attaching importance to imagination and inspiration and full of dreams and longings.
In the way of expression, poets are good at personifying natural scenery and applying the second person to things. In this way, the poet expresses his unique emotion and rich imagination through direct contact with nature. In the past twenty years, the beauty of images and lyrical appeal in Blake's poems have been more and more admired by critics, and some critics even think that "the beauty of Bruce's short poems is unprecedented". This is the highest appreciation of Blake's poetry.
(Liu Chongli)